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The two most recent large US mars rovers, and James Webb all seemed way too complex to ever work. All 3 worked! Shows what I know.
by gameswithgo 4y ago
The two most recent large US mars rovers, and James Webb all seemed way too complex to ever work. All 3 worked!
Shows what I know.
- jrootabega 4y agoWe're all still traumatized by the meters/feet problem. Oops, I mean the Newtons/pounds problem.
- pkaye 4y agoUnfortunately small problems can still happen. The recent Lucy mission to the Jupiter asteroid belt had a problem with one of the solar panels not properly unfolding. However they feel the remaining panel has sufficient power to complete the mission.
- lisper 4y agoIt’s not just you. I worked at JPL for twelve years and I expected it to fail too. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be wrong about this.
- mstipetic 4y agoWhy did you expect it to fail? You have some inside info about the problems they were facing?
- lisper 4y agoNo specific inside info. But seeing how the sausage is made makes it amazing that anything they do works at all, let alone that it so often works as well as it does. I was particularly primed to expect JWST to fail because I lived through the Galileo antenna failure and the Hubble mirror fiasco.